Dominic Frisby
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Dominic Frisby is a comedian and voiceover artist born in London in 1969. His father is the playwright Terence Frisby, whose most famous play, There's A Girl In My Soup, was once the longest-running comedy in the history of the West End.
Dominic first appeared the UK comedy circuit in 1997 with an act called The Upper-Class Rapper. Shaun Pye in The Evening Standard called it, 'Masterful'[citation needed]; The Times, 'Very impressive and very witty'[citation needed] and BBC London said it was, 'Spookily perfect'[citation needed]. It was a rather left-field act, whiich Frisby said, 'would either be a storm or die. There was no in-between.'
Dominic won the Ha Bloody Ha Best New Comedian Award in 1998 with Rob Rouse, in a final that also included Mickey Flanagan, and Hal Cruttenden.
Dominic went on to create other characters, including the Alpine slap dancer Ludwig The Bavarian, it-guy Simon La Fontaine and Morris The Morris Dancer.
Frisby attended the Edinburgh Festival in 2000 with a sketch show called Asprey and Frisby. It was supposed to be a double act with the actor George Asprey, but Asprey pulled out at the last minute and Dominic did it alone. The Stage described the show, ‘Clever, well-balanced, painfully-funny sketches, written and performed with tremendous skill. Frisby is a triumph.’ The Guardian said, ‘Viciously funny and inventive, a near-rapturous response - Frisby is a comic catch.’[citation needed]
In 2001 he returned and again in 2003, when he went back with the show, Truth And Bullshit. But during the run his marriage to fell apart.[citation needed]
In the meantime, Dominic's voiceover career has shown more consistency. His voice is continually used in commercials, documentaries and sports programs. [1] He can be heard with peter Kay in Rory The Racing Car, the new animation series from Chapman Entertainment.
Peter Graham who runs the Downstairs At The Kings Head, one of London's oldest clubs ([2]), asked Dominic to become the resident compere, as the previous compere Hugh Thomas, had become ill. Once an in-demand character act, Dominic has now re-invented himself as a compere. There are some great examples of his compering on his official site.
Dominic Frisby has made numerous TV appearances as an actor. Most recently he could be seen as a gay salsa teacher in Murder In Suburbia and in the BBC3 series Titty Bang Bang.[citation needed]
He has a strong interest in the commodities markets and presents the podcast Commodity Watch Radio. [3] Here
He has written two novels, both of which remain unpublished, and made numerous short films and self-initiated television programmes, which have gone on to become uncommissioned.[citation needed]
One of these short films, Love On The Upper Lip, was directed by the music videos, commercials and short films director Brendon Connelly, from an original idea by Dave Thompson, once the man inside the suit of the Teletubby Tinky Winky. Frisby provides the voice-over for the film, as well as playing the lead role, and sports a moustache throughout, which ends up being instrumental to the plot.
He has four children, Samuel, Eliza, Lola and Ferdinand.
